You can read the review by Victoire Rambert in French here or the Google translation below.
“It’s quite surprising to imagine a duo of guitarists filling the Olympia Hall for two successive nights. But that is however what Rodrigo y Gabriela, a folk rock duo from Mexico City, managed to do.The audience is quite young, there are also some parents, uncles, aunts and cousins.
The scene is pretty simple, some metal boxes, and a big screen where simple images will be projected. When the two arrive on stage one is most struck by the girl, this little woman in jeans and sneakers, full of energy, tapping on her guitar and scratching frantically at the strings.
She is beautiful and so simply completely into it, I instantly oath never to do anything complicated for a man again, I can see that’s it’s no use.
(The author explains that what she is trying to say is this, “She’s beautiful just wearing jeans and sneakers, and I thought to myself, high heels and make up, that’s not where the beauty is. I won’t ever compromise myself in such things.“)
The solos of Rodrigo are also indescribable. I feel the ground move under my feet and lift me: it’s the public jumping and clapping to songs they know by heart. After playing tracks from their album 11:11, they play older songs and invite a Palestinian duo to join them for a few songs, which is also quite enjoyed. In short, a kind of Al di Meola and Paco de Lucia genre, a little bit rockier though, something we rediscover with pleasure.”
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